CIMA & BuzzAngle Music Launch New Canadian Indie Music Charts

The Canadian Independent Music Association (CIMA) and BuzzAngle Music have teamed up to bring the first-ever independent-only music sales and streaming charts to Canada, through the innovative technology of BuzzAngle Music.

Harnessing BuzzAngle Music’s comprehensive music data reporting technology, these new charts, the first of which was released yesterday, will provide real-time, up-to-date data on the performance of releases from Canada’s independent music industry.

The Top 20 Canadian Album chart along with the Top 40 International Album chart will be published on a weekly basis via CIMA’s website. CIMA and BuzzAngle Music are both keen to point out that this is the first time that Canada will have an exclusive chart that puts the spotlight squarely on the strength of Canada’s domestic-owned independent music industry.

What do you think of the new charts? Should we start using them here? Let us know in the comments below.

@Garf I know resources are limited, and I’m so glad to have a place to go at all, but a chart without a way to listen to the top 20 albums, just seems like a list to me.

Benoit from Ottawa
April 19, 2017 at 09:24

krib, got it. But I had to attack the text a second time. There’s also a spot where I’d like to see a plural, but…

darbarspecial
April 19, 2017 at 10:20

@janet – That might be something to look at. Making a playlist to go along with it.

There are a lot of artists I don’t know on that list. I wonder how they come up with it. Lists are often without much weight for me but can be entertaining.

Hi everybody. I popped into work for a bit but I don’t think I am going to last. My body is rebelling. Now on top of the swollen leg, stasis dermatitis, infection, psoriasis, itching all over I have a cold too. It may be trying to tell me something.

GarfieldUK
April 19, 2017 at 10:22

@DBS From their own site
“The CIMA 20 chart is the top 20 Canadian independent artists’ album packages which includes sales, downloads and streams within the Canadian market.”

darbarspecial
April 19, 2017 at 10:27

I read that but it doesn’t tell me how they break it down and weigh it in. Know what I mean? It’s all good. The chart is interesting. It’s all lists that I wonder how they come up with it.

GarfieldUK
April 19, 2017 at 10:33

I know it is a different chart but the official UK chart might give us an idea
“The first to take on board audio streams was the Official Singles Chart from the beginning of July 2014 – with 100 audio streams (drawn from services such as Spotify, Deezer, Napster and O2 Tracks, among others) equating to 1 single purchase.”

“Digital tracks, called Track Equivalent Albums (TEAs), equate 10 digital track sales from an album to 1 equivalent album sale, and on-demand streams, called Stream Equivalent Albums (SEAs), equate 1,500 song streams from an album to 1 equivalent album sale.”